06-06-2007, 05:54 PM
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June 6th
1683 ~ Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum opened to the public as the world's first university museum.
1844 ~ The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) was founded in London.
1868 ~ Birthday of Robert Falcon Scott, English Explorer.
1901 ~ Birthday of Sukarno, first President of Indonesia.
1903 ~ Birthday of Aram Khachaturian, Armenian composer.
1944 ~ D-Day began with the landing of 155,000 Allied troops on the beaches of Normandy in France.
1961 ~ Death of Carl Jung, Swiss psychologist.
1984 ~ Indian troops stormed the Golden Temple in Amritsar.
1985 ~ Authorities in Brazil exhumed a body later identified as that of Dr. Josef Mengele, the Nazi doctor who conducted medical experiments on inmates at Auschwitz.
2002 ~ The Wye Oak, Maryland's honorary state tree, was destroyed in a thunderstorm.
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